- #1 Reign Of Kings
97% matchMixed57% of 14,891 reviews2015
Dev: Code}{atch
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 47.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.3% ★, Medieval 11.6%, Survival 10.5%, Open World 9%, Crafting 8.8%
- #2 Life is Feudal: Your Own
96% matchMixed66% of 12,061 reviews2015
Dev: Bitbox Ltd.
Windows
Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 58.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Hardcore and realistic; LiF is a Medieval multiplayer sandbox RPG, with free terraforming, a rich crafting system and preset and modular building construction. With engaging survival aspects, no target physics-based combat and a unique formation system - along with numerous other features - LiF is not for the faint of heart!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.6% ★, Medieval 13%, Survival 9.5%, Open World 9.4%, Sandbox 9.2%
- #3 Renown
96% matchMixed59% of 1,558 reviews2025
Dev: RDBK Studios
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Renown is an intense medieval multiplayer survival experience set in a vast, ever-evolving world. Whether alone or rallying allies, gather resources, build powerful strongholds, and engage in brutal battles for dominance.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 24.7% ★, Medieval 9.9%, Survival 8.5%, Crafting 8.4%, Sandbox 8%
- #4 Wurm Unlimited
95% matchMostly Positive71% of 3,133 reviews2015
Dev: Code Club ABPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Wurm Unlimited is the standalone version of the fantasy sandbox world Wurm Online, the MMORPG where the players are in charge! A pioneer in the ideas of player influence, crafting and adventure, it is now one of the most deep and feature packed true sandbox experiences available.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Sandbox 11.4%, Open World 9.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.6%
- #5 Reign and Ruin
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Azimpur
Windows
Reign and Ruin is a multiplayer survival game that takes place in a brutal medieval open-world. You must weather the harsh elements, gather resources, establish a settlement, defend your home, dominate your enemies, and rise up alone or with your guild to become the king of the realm.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Medieval 10.1%, Survival 9.2%, Crafting 7.7%, Base Building 7.4%
- #6 Force of Nature
94% matchMostly Positive75% of 4,202 reviews2016
Dev: A.Y.std
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Force of Nature is a Sandbox game that combines Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy and Management genres
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39% ★, Crafting 11.5%, Survival 11.5%, Sandbox 9%, Open World 7.9%
- #7 Crestfallen: Medieval Survival
93% matchMixed59% of 460 reviews2024
Dev: Bloodbath Studios
Windows
👑 Hail to the King! In Crestfallen: Medieval Survival, players clash for dominance over the realm through strategic castle 🏰 building and fierce combat. Craft epic armor, forge deadly medieval weapons⚔️, and build a kingdom worthy of legend 📜. Create a Guild 🐉, trade goods, and prevail! 🌟
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 10.2%, Crafting 9.9%, Medieval 9.5%, Building 8.8%
- #8 Primal Man Simulator
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: RD Games
Windows
Primal Man Simulator is a complex survival simulator where the player becomes one of the evolutionary precursors of modern homo sapiens, trying to live through another day in an unwelcoming forests of Europe.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.1% ★, Survival 11.9%, Crafting 10.9%, Open World 10.3%, Base Building 7.1%
- #9 Subsistence
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 13,685 reviews2016
Dev: ColdGames
Windows
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 39.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Subsistence is a sandbox, first person, solo or co-op, PvE open-world survival game. Struggle through changing seasons to build a base, develop technology and gear-up in the hostile environment. Defend yourself from wildlife, the elements and AI hunters (who also build bases in the world).
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 42.3% ★, Survival 12.9%, Crafting 10.1%, Open World 8.4%, Building 7.1%
- #10 Aurendor
90% matchMixed47% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Telescope Studios
Windows
Aurendor is an open world survival game. Players must gather resources, cook their meals and fight dangerous creatures to survive and build a home for themselves. Aurendor also offers a multiplayer game option. Players can play together by cooperating with or battling other survivors.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33.4% ★, Survival 10.2%, Open World 8.9%, Building 8.9%, Crafting 8.6%
- #11 Crushed
89% matchMixed54% of 311 reviews2020
Dev: NipoBoxPub: NipoBox Publishing
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Crushed — is an Singleplayer and Multiplayer First-Person Survival Sandbox in an Open World! Challenge the wild and be ready to survive in harsh conditions. Explore the world, get resources, cook food, build a house, farm, hunt, and enjoy nature.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 10%, Open World 8.9%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8%
- #12 SpiritBorn
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Highforge Studios
Windows
An open-world survival crafting RPG set among floating islands. Gather resources, craft powerful tools, unlock spirit abilities to soar between skybound realms and reclaim your lost godhood.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Survival 11.1%, Crafting 9.9%, Open World 9.7%, Building 9.1%
- #13 Bromeliad
88% matchMixed61% of 28 reviews2021
Dev: Gorka Games Studios
Windows
In Bromeliad you are stranded on a pacific island where you are a Human-Bear. You will have to survive, gathering materials to build tools and bases. You will need to hunt for food, explore, tame animals, then, at night strange creatures will appear. Survive and find an element to return to normal.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 35.8% ★, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 9.8%, Building 9%
- #14 Solace Crafting
87% matchMostly Positive72% of 891 reviews2022
Dev: Big Kitty Games
Windows · Linux
Embark on an adventure set in a fantasy survival RPG. Visit a borderless, open world where you manage resources to construct your base and new types of equipment to support your conquest.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.9% ★, Survival 10.1%, Crafting 9.6%, Base Building 8.8%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #15 ENDALOR
85% matchMostly Positive71% of 239 reviews2026
Dev: Diorite Games
Windows
An immersive medieval dark fantasy survival game with RPG elements for 1-4 players. Set in a hand crafted open world. Explore, survive, build, craft, fight and conquer your way through the dark, brutal and mysterious lands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Medieval 10.3%, Survival 9.1%, Open World 8.2%, Building 7.7%
- #16 Divided Land
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mich
Windows
Join the fight for survival in a vast medieval open world. Explore, hunt, craft powerful gear, raid and plunder enemy villages, or forge your own path. As darkness falls, the dead awaken - prepare your defenses or seek shelter. Join allies in co-op PvE or test your skills in ruthless PvP.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.9% ★, Survival 9.7%, Crafting 9.2%, Building 8.9%, Open World 8.5%
- #17 Out of Reach
86% matchMixed57% of 3,046 reviews2018
Dev: Space Boat Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%
You’re a castaway stranded in the middle of nowhere. Storm is gone, the worst certainly not. Look for food and resources, craft gear, make shelters. These are the basics, you need much more to stay alive on this cut-off-the-world, yet not desert island. Build & burn, sail & explore, be Out of Reach!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Survival 12.3%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 8.8%, Building 7.3%
- #18 Moon Colony Crafter
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: InfinityCoders
Windows
Play as an astronaut on our moon in the future. Your task is to prepare the moon for future colonies by terraforming. Collect resources, explore procedurally generated caves, build buildings and create a second world for you and our earth.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.7% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 8.6%, Open World 8.5%
- #19 Novus Inceptio
84% matchMixed52% of 1,302 reviews2015
Dev: McMagic Productions
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Warning: This is an Early Access game! Welcome to an enigmatic world, where a new gaming experience in exploring, building and surviving is waiting just for you. Experience a sandbox world with survival elements, and join us in creating a full version of the game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.9% ★, Survival 10.1%, Sandbox 10%, Crafting 9.1%, Open World 9.1%
- #20 Odd Woods
82% matchMostly Positive73% of 44 reviews2022
Dev: Matt
Windows
Odd Woods is a survival crafting game in a forest environment. Build your base during the day to withstand the attacks of horror creatures at night. Explore, farm and hunt wildlife to survive another day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 31.4% ★, Survival 10.7%, Base Building 10.4%, Building 9.9%, Open World 9.6%
- #21 Planet Explorers
83% matchMixed62% of 6,817 reviews2016
Dev: Pathea Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Planet Explorers is an open world sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.5% ★, Sandbox 14.1%, Open World 11%, Survival 8.6%, Crafting 8.1%
- #22 Nighthold
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 2 Zombie GamesPub: HypeTrain Digital
Windows
Build shelters, interact with rescuees, battle against the Rot and raiders to survive another night in this Sandbox RPG. Play Solo or team up with friends in Online Сo-op.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 43.3% ★, Sandbox 8.1%, Base Building 7.7%, Survival 7.7%, Crafting 7.2%
- #23 Ship Builder
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Play with up to three companions and become the best shipwrights on this side of the globe! Explore and gather materials needed to build legendary ships! Soon they will call you a legend as well.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.1% ★, Survival 9.4%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 9.3%, Open World 8.2%
- #24 RivenWorld: The First Era
80% matchMixed67% of 42 reviews2023
Dev: GameFocal
Windows
Do you have what it takes to endure the ruthless medieval realm? Introducing RivenWorld, a vast and immersive open-world sandbox survival multiplayer game set in the merciless medieval era.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28% ★, Medieval 11.2%, Survival 8.7%, Open World 8.6%, Sandbox 8.4%
- #25 Stranded Deep
79% matchMostly Positive74% of 47,389 reviews2022
Dev: Beam Team GamesPub: Beam Team Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 20.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 44.7% ★, Survival 13.8%, Crafting 8.9%, Open World 8.7%, Building 5.4%
- #26 Green Hell
79% matchVery Positive85% of 97,093 reviews2019
Dev: Creepy Jar
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 18.6 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.7% ★, Survival 13.2%, Crafting 7.8%, Open World 7.5%, Base Building 6.5%
- #27 Blockscape
81% matchMixed46% of 898 reviews2014
Dev: ioneo
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 49%
The ultimate block building game.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 49.5% ★, Sandbox 13%, Survival 7.5%, Crafting 7.5%, Open World 7.5%
- #28 Far North Survival
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: FrogVille Games
Windows
FAR NORTH SURVIVAL is an open-world survival game set in the unique setting of a vast ice-bound area beyond the Arctic Circle.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.9% ★, Survival 11.4%, Building 10.9%, Open World 9.9%, Crafting 9.4%
- #29 Project Castaway
77% matchMixed67% of 1,723 reviews2026
Dev: Mardonpol Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Project Castaway is a survival crafting title set in the Pacific Ocean. Live the life of a stranded castaway, with only yourself - and the island's inhabitants - for company! Sail the ocean, hunt, explore unique islands and gather resources as you fight for survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.3% ★, Survival 9.1%, Sandbox 9%, Base Building 8%, Open World 7.4%
- #30 Necesse
76% matchVery Positive93% of 27,199 reviews2025
Dev: Fair Games ApS
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 14.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 41.6% ★, Sandbox 9.4%, Survival 8.2%, Open World 8.1%, Crafting 7.8%
- #31 Reckfell
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: verkme
Windows
Survival is your only goal in Reckfell. The world is unforgiving - its creatures, the environment, and even other survivors will stop at nothing to end you. You must do whatever it takes to stay alive for one more day.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 9.6%, Sandbox 9.5%, Building 9.4%
- #32 Survival: Fountain of Youth
76% matchVery Positive86% of 4,339 reviews2024
Dev: Odinsoft Inc.Pub: Twin Sails Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Survival: Fountain of Youth is a challenging single-player open-world adventure game set on the Caribbean islands. Survive as a shipwrecked 16th-century explorer, craft tools and shelter, and uncover the secrets of both an ancient civilization and your own fate.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.5% ★, Survival 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%, Crafting 8.7%, Sandbox 7.8%
- #33 Stormforge
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Roboto Games
Windows
Stormforge is an open-world survival crafting game for 1 to 8 players. You are Stormforged, with the ability to brave and harness power from magical storms. Explore, fight, forage, craft, build, and defeat bosses in this epic, fantasy game. Survive the Storms and thrive!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 10%, Open World 9.5%, Medieval 8.9%, Building 8.2%
- #34 Nightingale
75% matchMixed67% of 17,932 reviews2024
Dev: Inflexion Games
Windows
Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Nightingale is an open world survival crafting game, where you’ll adventure across the mysterious and dangerous Fae Realms. As a daring Realmwalker, you’ll defeat monstrous enemies, survive hostile environments, and build elaborate estates in a visually stunning Gaslamp Fantasy world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.5% ★, Survival 10.4%, Building 9.1%, Open World 9.1%, Crafting 9%
- #35 Smalland: Survive the Wilds
74% matchVery Positive82% of 9,989 reviews2024
Dev: Merge GamesPub: Maximum Entertainment
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 15.2 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.4% ★, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 9.5%, Building 8.5%, Crafting 8.5%
- #36 Drift: Space Survival
74% matchMostly Positive70% of 77 reviews2023
Dev: KAR Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You were deep in uncharted space on a research mission. Disaster struck. Together with your friends, explore a mysterious asteroid field and mine whatever resources possible to build what you need to survive.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 36.6% ★, Survival 10.8%, Crafting 9.1%, Building 8.5%, Sandbox 7.6%
- #37 XenoHaven
72% matchVery Positive86% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Miniverse GamePub: OKJOY
Windows
In XenoHaven, gather resources to build shelters, enslave alien beasts to work for you, and run restaurants and shops. Delve into dark underground dungeons, defeat swarming insectoids and mighty bosses, and craft powerful gear to conquer the alien world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 28.2% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Open World 10.8%, Base Building 10.7%, Survival 10.6%
- #38 Eldercraft: Mountaineers
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Derivative Synergistics
Windows
Eldercraft: Mountaineers is an RPG about crafting, surviving and exploring. Forge your routes and pathways up the mountain to reach valuable treasures. These will help you forge more pathways that will lead you to the summit.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32% ★, Survival 11%, Base Building 10.3%, Open World 9.3%, Building 9.2%
- #39 SkyCraft
73% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: ADIAN
Windows
Skycraft is an open-world survival game for 1-10 players, set in infinite procedurally-generated floating islands.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 33% ★, Survival 10.2%, Building 9.7%, Open World 9.2%, Crafting 9.2%
- #40 Raft
71% matchVery Positive93% of 372,032 reviews2022
Dev: Redbeet InteractivePub: Axolot Games
Windows
Median: 14.6 hrsMean: 37.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 38.8% ★, Survival 15.2%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 7.2%, Open World 6.9%
- #41 Cataclysm Upon Us
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 7Dev Studios
Windows · Linux
Cataclysm Upon Us is an open world survival RPG. Craft, fight, and build in a world overrun by mutants, zombies and other abominations. Uncover secrets, embrace mutations and cybernetic enhancements. Every decision shapes your journey in this haunting cataclysm. Can you survive the chaos?
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.2% ★, Survival 10.4%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 9.5%, Building 9.1%
- #42 Wildwood: Hearth & Horizon
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: State Machine
Windows
WILDWOOD: Hearth & Horizon is a coop atmospheric survival game about looting, crafting, and trade. Build a base, fight enemies and find rare treasure. Work with your friends to carve out a toehold in a harsh and unforgiving wilderness. Inspired by games like "The Long Dark" and "Kenshi"
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.7% ★, Sandbox 8.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Medieval 8.3%, Building 7.9%
- #43 Dig or Die
71% matchVery Positive90% of 4,269 reviews2018
Dev: Gaddy Games
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Crash land on a hostile planet where you'll have to build the strongest defenses if you wish to live to escape from it. But be warned... this planet is merciless. Build strong, and smart; else physics may flood or destroy your only hopes of survival.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 39.4% ★, Survival 13.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Crafting 10.7%, Open World 7.1%
- #44 Longvinter
69% matchMixed67% of 7,565 reviews2025
Dev: Uuvana Studios
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 42.7 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.1% ★, Survival 12.6%, Crafting 11.4%, Open World 10%, Sandbox 9.6%
- #45 Rust
70% matchVery Positive87% of 1,363,157 reviews2018
Dev: Facepunch Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 52.5 hrsMean: 421.6 hrs≥1hr: 96%
The only aim in Rust is to survive. Everything wants you to die - the island’s wildlife, other inhabitants, the environment, and other survivors. Do whatever it takes to last another night.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 27.3% ★, Survival 18.6%, Crafting 12%, Open World 10.4%, Building 8.6%
- #46 Oldowan
70% matchMixed63% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Broussard Boi
Windows
Oldowan is a first-person casual survival sandbox game that is focused on very early humanity and how it developed. The crafting is all based on real practices, but the survival aspects are relaxed. Play solo or with 1-3 friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 30.6% ★, Survival 9.6%, Crafting 8.9%, Building 8.8%, Open World 8.6%
- #47 Undercraft
71% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: PlayUndercraft
Windows
Create your world in this sandbox game where you can dig, build, explore, fight, and farm. Have a different experience in a day or night adventure. Explore a procedurally generated world.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.7% ★, Sandbox 11.8%, Survival 10.7%, Building 9.1%, Crafting 6.8%
- #48 Emberhaven
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Third Variable Co., Ltd.Pub: Jexar Games Co., Ltd.
Windows
Survive in a procedurally generated fantasy world overrun by creeping corruption. Build impenetrable strongholds, tend your farms, forge deadly weapons, and fend off hordes of mutated abominations to defend your last sanctuary.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.8% ★, Sandbox 10.7%, Survival 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Crafting 9.1%
- #49 Terraria
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,524,255 reviews2011
Dev: Re-Logic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 33.5 hrsMean: 150.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 40.9% ★, Sandbox 14%, Survival 10.5%, Crafting 8.7%, Building 8.4%
- #50 Medieval Frontiers
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Active Fungus StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A.
Windows
First-person colony simulation where strategy meets survival in a demanding, medieval wilderness. Construct gridless settlements, establish production chains, and manage the needs, desires, and work morale of your villagers to ensure their survival through the harsh realities of nature and disease.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.5% ★, Medieval 9.9%, Crafting 8.4%, Building 8.4%, Survival 8.4%
- #51 ICARUS
67% matchMostly Positive74% of 63,962 reviews2021
Dev: RocketWerkz
Windows
Median: 10.2 hrsMean: 46.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
ICARUS is a solo or multiplayer PvE survival game. Explore a savage wilderness in the aftermath of terraforming gone wrong. Complete narrative quests as either Open World operations or Individual Missions. Explore, build, craft and hunt while seeking your fortune and prospecting for exotic matter.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.6% ★, Survival 11.7%, Base Building 9.7%, Crafting 8.5%, Open World 7.5%
- #52 Grounded 2
65% matchVery Positive81% of 21,263 reviews2025
Dev: Obsidian EntertainmentPub: Xbox Game Studios
Windows
Median: 12.0 hrsMean: 22.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Shrunk again, but the world is much larger. In this open-world, single-player or co-op survival adventure, craft weapons and armor, build your base, and traverse the playground on your buggy. But something else is out there—and it hasn’t forgotten you.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 26.8% ★, Survival 14.7%, Base Building 11.6%, Open World 9.8%, Crafting 9.2%
- #53 Zeverland
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Quirks
Windows
Welcome to Zeverland. Common sense is your best weapon against the Zeds. After figuring out the "not dying" part, grab some friends to save the world. Find a cure, build a rocket, or a tower too high for Zeds to climb. Nothing's off limits. You're here at the very start of the apocalypse. Go wild!
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Base Building 9.8%, Survival 9.8%, Crafting 9.3%, Sandbox 9.1%
- #54 Short Snow | Cold Survival Game
66% matchMixed53% of 148 reviews2025
Dev: MubDev
Windows
A realistic open-world survival experience. After a harrowing plane crash, you find yourself stranded in the wilderness. Battling freezing temperatures and hunger, you face an unknown virus that slowly paralyzes muscles, leaving its victims motionless and at the mercy of the unforgiving cold.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 34.3% ★, Survival 12.1%, Open World 10.6%, Sandbox 8.7%, Crafting 8.3%
- #55 RuneScape: Dragonwilds
64% matchVery Positive81% of 25,015 reviews2025
Dev: Jagex Ltd
Windows
Median: 7.8 hrsMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
On RuneScape’s forgotten continent of Ashenfall, dragons have awoken. Gather, build, skill and craft to survive in this co-operative (1-4) survival crafting game. Only by mastering survival and uncovering ancient secrets can they hope to slay the Dragon Queen—alone or with allies.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 32.9% ★, Open World 10.9%, Survival 10.9%, Crafting 8.5%, Building 8.3%
- #56 Wild Omission
66% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2023
Dev: Telephone Studios
Windows
Wild Omission is an open world sandbox survival game with severe weather set in an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends.
Why similar: Open World Survival Craft 29.3% ★, Survival 10.3%, Crafting 10.1%, Sandbox 9.4%, Building 9.3%